WEBVTT - Episode 339 w/ Derek Jeter 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:03.880 Welcome to Drink Champs, the production of The Black Effect 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:20.360 and I heart radio and it's drinks motherfucking podcast. He's 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.239 a legendary queen's rapper. He's like greed is your boy 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.520 in O R. He's a Miami hip hop pioneer up 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.360 his DJ e f N. Together they drinking up with 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:34.600 some of the biggest players in the most professional unprofessional podcast. 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:39.400 And yet number one sorts for drunk drink is New year' z. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:49.880 That's time for Drink Champs. Drink up mother, mother? Would 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:51.159 it good? Be hope? It would it s be? This 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.159 your boy in O R? What up is d j 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.800 e f N? And it's Drink Champs. Will make so nice? 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.200 This is a very very special episode. We're in a 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:09.360 very special place where not at Drink Champion because because 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.280 people were not a Drink Chams location, because we have 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:18.120 as special When I tell you some of the best 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.000 years of my life is when this man was on 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:26.600 the field playing and leading the leader of men, El Capitan. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:33.400 I watched his documentary three times. The first two times 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.680 I watched it, I hit a friend of mine and 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.800 she said she cried, So I said, damn, I need 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.480 to see where she had to cry, and I realized 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.720 he wasn't from New York. So a lot of people 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.960 who wasn't from New York and played against US State 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.800 didn't cry. The man let us he is. He is 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:58.320 a class act AH, five time champion. His accolations keep 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.960 going and going and going. So we right now on 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.320 the legendary car bones. By the way, people can't even 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:08.880 get a reservation and we're help filming is crazy. Let's 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:15.320 make some noise for the one when I was watched 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.520 the documentary, I'll tell you what was the craziest part 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.320 of the documentary to me. For me was when you 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.119 got drafted right and then your first couple of years 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.760 in the mining least, what was that? What are those Yeah, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.960 you weren't doing good, terrible right, So what made them 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.679 keep you? They didn't have a choice. They gave me 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.519 a big signing bonus. You get drafted high with a 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.480 signing bus, they're gonna give you an opportunity to make 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.359 some mistakes. First of all, before we start, thanks for 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:48.120 having me, because I keep running into around town and 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:55.400 I've been waiting for six years to get invited on this. Finally, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.720 now after after months and months and begging finally allowed them. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.560 But back to that, yeah, back to yeah easy, because 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.919 I had didn't hear these years. I had only heard 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.880 of these years um when I watched the documentary. But 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.919 when they was reflecting on it, I was like, this 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.600 is so amazing the story because how it was the 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.160 number one in high school and then you went there 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.400 and then it was like the first couple of years 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.359 it wasn't we're working out for you? I think, Yeah. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.799 First of all, I think one thing you have to 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:37.040 realize is anyone that's had success in any profession has 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.680 failed everyone. You don't hear about it, like you two 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.640 have failed. You just show up and now you got 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.800 drink chances. You got bumps along the way, bumps in 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.520 the road. Part of the how do you stop it 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.400 from being a roadblock, you know what I mean. So 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:55.080 I'm coming from Calamusoo, Michigan. No disrespect to Calumus. It 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.400 was just a small town, you know, not known. I 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:01.040 guess for professional baseball players. Now you go from playing 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.280 in Kalamazudi, now you're playing against the best players in 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.800 the world. And I was completely overmatched, completely overmatched. And 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.720 but I mean that's when you you gotta bounce back. Man, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.960 you gotta learn from your failures and and you got 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.200 to try to look at the bright side and and um. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.400 But yeah, thanks for starting this off by have me 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.200 go down memory lane when I was bad. I appreciate 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:28.520 that stories. It's the fruition that that your parents even had, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.080 Like I've seen your baby pictures of you with a 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.440 Yankee you more like it was almost spooky to see 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.040 that because it was like, this guy is exactly who 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.960 he's made to be looking back. Yeah, but I mean, 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:43.720 one one thing is is I give my parents a 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.800 lot of credit because you need the people closest to 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:51.160 you reinforcing your dreams, right, Because anytime you have a 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.440 far fetched dream in other people's minds, everyone's telling you 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.840 you're never going to achieve. It's just what you're gonna hear. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.760 You can't you can't achieve. It's like in a documentary. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.240 Who then are you to tell me that I can't 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.720 achieve my dream? You know, and my parents, who are 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.000 obviously closest to me, I said I could do it 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.960 as well. So you need to support and they supported 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:12.360 me from day one. The only thing ever wanted to 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.720 be and always short, stop, always short. My dad was 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:18.880 you know I played shortstop. I was trying to be 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:24.000 you and I didn't heard about you. About birthday too, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.440 I couldn't Thanks for the invites to the party. I 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:33.040 mean I got three girls five and under. Yes, so 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.960 if you have a birthday lunch, I'll get to the birthday. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.480 Oh my god, so be bouncing around a little bit. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:55.080 But um, best year in my life. I'm platinum Yankees 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.960 World Series? Can you describe that year? It was my hat? 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:04.360 What's my hat? Man? You know, you have a good 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.720 year in baseball. First of all, it's a hundred and 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.640 sixty two games. You have a good year, you win 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.320 a hundred games, and people say, what did you go 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:15.599 that year? We were a hundred and fifty Wow. Yeah, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.559 counting the postseason where SEVENTI five games over five hundred. 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.479 So um, I mean, it's just one of those years 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.840 where I looky. It's it's tough to compare rors, you know, 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.520 whether it's in music or whether it's in sports. But 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.080 I would put that team up there against any team 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.760 in the history of that They said the game when 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:41.320 we googled, they named that the best Yankee team ever. Good. Yeah, 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.640 I didn't know that great, Okay, Like I said around 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.560 a little bit, and I'm bringing my brother in a 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:54.080 little while. But all of my friends I went bord 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.680 to Derek g New Jersey. They're laughing at me already. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.800 I went and what I For some reason, maybe I've 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.720 been in Florida too long. I didn't know that if 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.200 I had your name on the back of it, it's 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.760 not official. They would literally not let me come in 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:15.080 here with this jersey because let's hear from you. So 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.040 if to be official, you can't have your name, one name, no. 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.680 Yankee is one of the few teams that don't have 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.480 their names New Jersey. You know. It's actually I give 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:23.960 you a little history. Yankees is the first team to 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.480 have numbers on their uniforms, and it used to go 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.680 by the order in the lineup, which is why Ruth 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.600 was three, Garrett was four. So we're the first team 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.040 to have numbers on the units. And the reason why 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.040 you don't have it's all about the team. It's not 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:42.800 about you know, It's all about the team ultimately. That's 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.720 what matters. I mean, it's it's winning in anything in life, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.000 it's winning. I mean, I have problems. He's probably saw 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.360 the documentary. I mean to have competition problems. You can 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.760 say you want to race down the street, I'm gonna 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.800 try to beat you racing down the street. And if 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:56.960 I don't beat you, we're gonna go do it again. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.520 You know what I mean. It's just so ultimately that's 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.920 what you play for us to win. Personal accolades are great, 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.760 they come along with it, but you know, you're don't 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.720 have a team success. Yeah, that that's crazy because they 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:12.160 were my friends. Was exactly right. They and I'm sitting 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.920 back and I'm like, why did that didn't know that? Like, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.200 and they all like, you're a bozo. You shouldn't know that. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.360 And and I literally they would not let me let 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:25.480 you sign that. I said, I want to. Uh wow, 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.120 that's so. I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm glad. I got 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:31.320 a good team. I'm glad. Thank you diego um dude 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.439 said young. Really they had they had an intervention with me, 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.400 Like I felt like I was on drops. It's necessary. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:44.960 Interventions are necessary? Is there anything like the Yankees fans? 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.040 Because what did the Yankees? What did they just win? 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:52.160 Just now? Yeah? Is is that the best fans in 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.360 the world by far? It's not even close. You know. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.440 The thing with the Yankee fans. Are they pay attention 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.240 every single day? You mentioned we had a rough patch 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:02.839 towards the end of the year. First of all, we 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.280 want a division in April it was over. We just 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.920 like five months that, you know, we already won and 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.760 we had a rough patch at the end, and you're 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.959 walking down the streets and you know, fans yelling you 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.000 better turn it around. You guys are gonna blow it. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.720 I'm like, damn, we have games right now, but they 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.400 watch every single day. They expect excellence. Uh, they do 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.520 not take excuses, right. I mean, you gotta stand in 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.200 front of your locker and you have to answer questions 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.480 where things don't go well. And you know, it's like 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.240 I always just tell my teammates if you want to 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.640 escape the locker room, do it. When you have a 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.840 good game, you know, you find a lot. I find 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.319 out a lot about people when how they handle adversity. 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.680 New Yorkers want to see First of all, I don't 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.720 know if you necessarily say they want to see you fail, 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.400 but they do. They want to see how you're gonna 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.920 bounce back to Yes, yes, yes, so Yankee fans are 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.599 the best. Man. Do we still hate Boston fans, I 0:09:55.640 --> 0:10:00.480 wouldn't say it's a hatred. Um, I gotta be careful, man, 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.679 I still walk around. You know, it's he's outside. I've 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.160 said it before. After they won in two thousand four, 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.679 they softened a little bit. My parents didn't even go 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.760 back to Fenway Park because they were brutal. And I'm 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.960 sure Red Sox players will tell you the same thing. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.920 New York fans are brutal. But they softened a little bit. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.320 And um so now I have no issues with Boston fans. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:27.839 Plus we won more than they did. So would you 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.920 like some opus one? One? No, I'm gonna let you 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.520 handle that. You just want to make sure you don't 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:45.440 do that one that's daily on. Thanks, look'd be nervous. Okay, Thanks? 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.200 And you got you got? You got straight vodka, straight straighter, hardy. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.520 Let me put it out there. It's right now. I 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:57.079 don't want to it's noon. You haven't eaten a thing? Yes, 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:01.079 we haven't, so I'm not responsible for anything. I say. Point, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:07.120 we're gonna have to edit a lot. Greatness wins. 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In my tools and my 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.640 career outside of a baseball on the back, which don't 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.200 really change too much, is the apparel that you use. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:03.599 So UM wanted to give you guys something me that 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.559 it's kind of like our Patreon. We're gonna direct to 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:10.959 consumer to patre dot com. So it's like I'm born 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.720 and raised New Yorker and I live in Miami now 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:18.400 for the past fifteen years or so. You're you're you're 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.600 in New Yorker. That's like, um that now living lives 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.280 in Miami. Well, how was the mall Is experience? How 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.679 how was that because you are an owner? You went 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.199 from being a player to owner. I think he was 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.120 like the only one like in baseball history. And then 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.840 and they also saying a black owner. Was it pressure? 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.120 How was it? Because Miami fans are a little different. Well, 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.880 I keep example, I first came to a Heat game 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:49.520 and I'm sorry, y'all, no, no, I'm sorry. I've never 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.679 seen this before in my life. And Lebron wasn't. They like, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.800 Lebron didn't win. The whole stadium went out, like half 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.240 of the stadium left. I was like, New York fairs 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.800 will never do that. The Nicks could be getting pounded 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.960 and we'll still be there with our popcorn. So Miami 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:08.120 fans are different. How was that experience? Well, let me 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.040 start with you know, I've lived in I lived in 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.360 Tampa on the other side of Florida twenty some years. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.720 We had our player development and spring training facility there, 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.800 so I always lived in Tampa so I could work 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.120 out the entire offseason. And I love Florida, live here 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.720 for a long time. And you know, major league teams, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.720 I should say, sports franchises don't trade that office. It's 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.600 not like you can just wake up one day and say, hey, 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.600 oh yeah, I want to get together by a team. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.480 So I wanted to to acquire a team that was 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.840 close to home. Um and it just so happened that 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.440 Miami came up, and so I put together an ownership 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.040 group and and we purchased the team. And one thing 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.000 about about Miami fans, when you're comparing Miami and New York, right, 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.640 New York is generational fans. You know, you are born 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.960 a Yankee fans. Your grand your your parents were your grandparents, 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.320 your great grandparents. You basically have no choice, and you 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.760 have no And then you know you come to Miami, 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.160 especially you know the baseball team, it's a new franchise 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.520 with a checkered pass. They have the history of they've 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.360 won a couple of times. They get rid of everyone, 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.080 and we came in, we made changes. I look at 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.240 it as a challenge. You know, everything in life is challenging. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.760 Anything that means something to you a challenging. So never 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.280 shied away from it. And and and we we I 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.600 think as a sports fan, and it's understandable. You look 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.800 at wins and losses. That's how you judge an organization. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.360 I get it. But there's a lot more that goes 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.280 along with it. And you have to build a great 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.480 front office. You have to build a great minor league system. Unfortunately, 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.320 it takes time, It takes patience, I don't have any patience, right, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.600 but I'm trying to kids now, so I'm trying to 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.720 work on my patients. But it takes some patience. And 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.840 and we accomplished quite a bit, I think in my 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.000 time with the organization and and um, you know, whether 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.840 it went to the postseason for the first time in 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.040 seventeen years. I mean, look, no matter how you look 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.000 at ultimately your goals to win a championship, but there's 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.280 steps along the way, you know, because you know, during 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.400 my career, I was known for seeing if you didn't 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.880 win a World Series, seasons of failure, it is a failure. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.640 Plus I won my first year, you know what I mean. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:19.920 So there's nowhere you know, I'm not I'm not saying 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.160 it for I'm just saying, you know, that's that's the 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.720 goal we set, right, That's that's the president we said 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.240 we won. So next year what gett into the World 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.560 Series doesn't mean anything. So I'm down here in Miami. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.360 There's steps along the way. So we made we took 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.560 some steps in the right direction. I'm proud of the 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.520 front office that we built, Um, the diverse front office 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.440 that we built. And unfortunately, like I said, when I left. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.200 You know, the direction of the team changed, and um, 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.040 it wouldn't be me if I was still there because 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.320 they blamed you with what God blame me for everything, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:57.120 which is fine, which is fine talking about. But what's 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.640 the guy that they traded to New York because they 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.080 blamed you for that? You you remember? Yeah, But I mean, look, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.000 this is the way I look at it, right, Um, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.760 they look Miami hats great players, we took over, but 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.800 for whatever reason, they didn't win for whatever reason, So 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.760 there needs to be changed, right, I mean I worked 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.680 for George Steinbrenner. You didn't do your job, you were gone. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.800 I mean, it's just black and white. When are you 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.240 you make changes? So yeah, we made changes. I know 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.320 there's a lot of unpopular decisions that that were made. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.680 But you know, I'm fine. What do you think it's 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.400 hard of being a player or being an owner? Uh? Man? 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.760 You know what, when you play, you have a chance 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.560 to affect the outcome of a game. Wow, when you're 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.120 up there watching, you can't control it. I mean you can't. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.679 You know, you see things from up in a suite, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.240 you see it as if you were playing. But it's 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:52.800 not like you can go down there and say something. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.919 You know, so it's it's it's a challenging I's going 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.359 to accent. Have you ever, like as the owner was like, man, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.879 let me go suit up. No no no no no 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.000 no no no no no no no, let's get one 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.000 let's get one thing straight. I'm done. I would not. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.200 I would embarrass myself. I understand how difficult it is 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.640 to play the game. I understand people are going to fail, 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:15.800 and we talked about it earlier. I actually like to 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.240 see when players fail because I watched what you do 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:19.920 when you're walking off the field. I watch what you 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.000 do when you're in the clubhouse. I watched what you 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.639 do in postgame interviews. I see it tells me a 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.639 lot more about an individual when they struggle, like like 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.640 like like you know, um, in sportsmanship, they shake hands 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.360 after win all loss. So if a person doesn't take 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:37.520 a hand, you feel like a good sportsmanship. Have you ever? 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:39.960 I wasn't shaking hands with people and we lost. You 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.200 know what I mean? No, I didn't do that. There's 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:43.960 funny story. When I was younger, I was playing little 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.600 league and my dad coached me for just a couple 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.320 of years. I was trying to beg him for years 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.520 and coach me. And one time we lost the game 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:54.840 and I refused to shake literally he shake hands. I 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.879 refused to shake hands with the other team. So you know, 0:18:57.920 --> 0:18:59.240 he pulled me aside and say, man, you need to 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.160 start playing an end of visuals for it, said because 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.360 you know it taught me a lesson, right. I mean, 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.879 you don't want to say you lose gracefully because you 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.280 never accepted. But I think it's it's you understand that 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.439 you know you can't walk around with your head up 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.280 high when things are going good and then all of 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.760 a sudden you disappear when things don't go your way. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.720 So I didn't, Man, I wasn't shaking hands after we lost, 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:29.960 But um I did it. I lost respectfully. Yeah, I understand, 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.880 I understand. Understand. Holy, I got notes and all type 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.800 of things. I'm getting into it. Let's go Holy. But 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.720 how many years were you at the Marlan uh four 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.680 and a half, four and a half, four and a half, 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.360 And did you do you think that you were able 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.240 to accomplish some of the things you were trying to 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.400 create that process to get the team where they needed 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.480 to be. And it all starts with people. You gotta 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.800 have the right people in place, and it's it's um 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.160 you know, I said it in the documentary. Remember when 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.600 Um Theopstein had a lot of success in Boston, then 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.960 he went to Chicago. And when he got to Chicago 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.080 and he told the fan base, he's gonna take us 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:07.440 five years. Right. I never put a time frame on 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.160 it because I think if you tell someone it's gonna 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.520 take us a few years, you're making it okay for 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:16.520 them to fail. I expect you when you compete, you're 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:20.040 expected to win, right. Um. So I think we we 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:25.000 made a lot of progress. Um not enough. Um So 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:28.960 I I I'm more happy, and I'm more proud of 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.520 the people that we put in place. I mean, and 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:39.560 and up until when I left, right, and you were 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:43.080 supposed to be with Diddy and j Lo the night 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.120 of the n Y Club shooting, I wouldn't well, I wouldn't. Yeah, 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.280 I wouldn't necessarily say supposed to be, Um, you know 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.520 my boy and Mike. Yeah, So we were out right 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.320 after um, right after a game. We're eating and then um, 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.720 you know, Puff had mentioned to Mike, why don't you 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.600 guys I'm buying And I was like, they say it 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.160 all the time, Ma I'm gona stay out of trouble tonight, 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.960 say it all the time. So it was just that, Yeah, 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:13.359 it was avoided a conflict. It was crazy case. I'm 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.920 sitting there and me and Puff. Uh last time I 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:17.879 seen you was here, correct, And I think me and 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.840 Puff is there and running him down. The documentary and 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:24.360 there's such so much of events. It's like you are, 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.640 like I keep forgetting you're not from New York City, 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.679 like born and raised, because my whole life in New 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.880 York City, I've known to beat this. Yeah, I've said 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:35.760 this before. You know what's what it's. I think it's 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:38.600 called The Truman Show. Jim Carrey blew up on television. 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:41.399 That was me because I came to New York I 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:43.600 was twenty years old. We talked about it before. Yankee 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:47.919 fans watch every single game, so they watched me grow up, 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.560 and I watched Yankee fans grow up too, you know. 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:53.000 So we grew up together. And the great thing about 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:56.680 baseball's every single day. I'll tell you. I'll tell you 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.239 something that's that was weird for me as a as 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:03.800 a Yankee fan was I didn't think that the Yankees 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:06.840 should have ever took a Rod. I felt like that 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:10.680 was both the opposition. You were solidified. I didn't know 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.000 why they ever like brung him on. But one thing 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.760 with New York Man and Yankees, and especially Mr Steinbrenner, 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.600 you can play. He wants you. He wants to win. Man. 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:23.879 I told the story before you know. Mr Steinbrenner, the 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.840 late George Steinbrenners a big football guy with a great 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:29.239